Yaneek Page | A $370 billion question: Who is Jamaica building?

Meet Samantha She’s 32, and part of a generation trying to stretch every monthly pay cheque and cover rent while helping ageing parents and relatives get by. She isn’t reading Integrity Commission or auditor general’s reports. And a headline about J$370 billion in government contracts reads like noise to her. It certainly isn’t noise. However, it is her roads, the medical care available to loved ones, whether she can afford to run the A/C to cool her bedroom, cost of living, and if her generation will own property that preoccupy her daily thoughts.